from nagaoka with love

Ongaku Happyoukai or Musical Concert is an annual event of the school and was held on February 20th, in Lyric Hall Nagaoka City.  This was the last performance by Dada and her class(Bara San), the most senior class as they are going to primary school by next April.  Beside sing and dance, this time Dada had a chance to play vibraphone and keyboard. Dada plays vibraphone I was very proud and happy each time i watched them on stage, and i'm pretty sure every parent would feel the same.  They really performed well as they were doing it wholeheartedly.    As previous year, the parent of Bara Class will be participate in one special performance as a tribute to the school for the good collaboration all these years.  We were singing two songs,  Namidakun Sayounara and Believe.  For the second song, though the tittle sounds English, it only has four english words in it. We did practicing it several times before the day, but some of pa...

saya tak mahu ulas panjang2, rasanya semua orang sudah tahu dan lebih arif. kadang-kadang kita sebagai ibu dengan anak-anak kecil, untuk khusyuk dalam solat 100% memang susah, semasa sedang sembahyang si kecil berlari ke sana sini, memanjat belakang, menarik telekung, bertanyakan something dan menangis minta sesuatu.  Berusaha untuk lebih fokus dan khusyuk, ini antara tip yang bole diapply dalam solat,  1. Menjaga makanan, minuman, pakaian, tempat tinggal dan lain-lain supaya datang dari punca yang halal tanpa syubhah. 2. Agar pemikiran tidak liar, sebelum solat lintaskan kematian seakan-akan amat hampir dengan kita serta solat tersebut merupakan sholat terakhir dan perlulah dijadikan yang terbaik. 3. Mendirikan sembahyang di awal waktu atau pertengahan waktu supaya tidak gopoh apakala masa hampir luput. 4. Membaca dengan baik (Khusnul Qori’ah), berusaha untuk memahami, mengerti bacaan dalam solat termasuk ayat Al-Quran yang dibacakan itu terutama sekali Al Fatihah, gerakan ...

The story took place in Akihabara, last week.  We were about to leave Akihabara station and i was looking at the map to find our stop station and the fare as well.  As this wasn't my first time there, it was easy for me to find our way.   Earlier, I saw a man(Japanese) was talking to other man (foreigner)  as if the Japanese was guiding the foreigner on how to get to the foreigner's place.  Hubby wasn't with me, Ari was fell asleep and the weather outside was super cold, and because of that he just  waiting for us inside the station while i treated my sister on her shopping agenda. I was then approached by the same Japanese, asking me my destination. He dressed in suit, but his attire was rather shabby plus his stinky mouth but with his very fluent English. " Three of you, where are you going?" (me, my sister n her husband) " Kameido station", i replied, was trying to be polite and just let him to guide us. "Here is Akihabara, the n...

The second part of ucu's is a trip to Tokyo or Disneyland to be exact.  But unfortunately, the weather was bad and Tokyo town was flooded by snow from very early Friday morning until the next day continuously. I did checked the forecast the day before and even they stated it clearly rain, i just pray for contrarily and hope for some miracle to happened.  We arrived at Disneyland before 7, had our breakfast inside car and continued sleep until 9am.  After wake up, the snow still falling heavily and the temperature was damn cold.  We headed to the main entrance and were about to queue until both of us decided to call off the Disneyland trip and switch to other places as planned. We really know that we couldn't stand staying outside for a long hours with that cold, and for sure we won't get to play all the rides and it was not worth it to pay such thousand yen for that.  So we said good bye to Disneyland and wish to be here in spring while ucu was a little bi...